Hi, How Are You Everyone? Hope you all having a good day
Sorry I have been away for a while from #freecompliments, I have my hands full and my health has been bad recently, so I take all the time I could for resting. Finally I can start writing again this week and first thing first... I welcome you to my TACO TUESDAY posts here!!
This week, my Taco Tuesdays is about Sate Kambing or Kambing. Kambing is Goat in Indonesian Language, yes a Goat, not a lamb or Greatest of all Time
Indonesian people are majority Muslim, so our main meat are Chicken and Beef. It suppose to be Chicken and Goat, but somehow people here eat more beef than Goat. Goat sometime is considered non ordinary food, so people get goat dish if they want to have good time or during special occasion.
There are many goat dishes here, the most famous one is Kambing Guling (rolled goat). But the funny thing, no matter what goat dishes you eat, people will say that they eat Kambing (goat). They won't say they eat satay, tongseng, kebab or others, just goat. Very different with Beef or Cow dishes, we say specifically eating what dish, such as Rendang, Satay, Soup, Ribs, and others.
so I will say now with my Indonesian Style... Today We have GOAT!!!
THE PLACE I PICKED
There is a new Goat outlet opened near my office, the place seems clean and cozy. It's called Sate Hadori. yes, most goat outlet will pick Sate or Satay as their main specialty menu, even though some of them are suck at it.
The name of Hadori is not new to me, I have lived 8 years in Bandung and Hadori was and still is the most famous Satay House there, with their signature Grilled Satay.
Unfortunately I see this place doesn't show prowess in their Satay dishes. If you want to see whether a Goat Satay House is great or not in Indonesia, the method is simple. The place must be packed, and they are displaying some good goat leg carcasses in front.
People believe that a good satay is made from goat leg meat, and the leg should never have been refrigerated or stored in any cold chain. So they must cut the live Goat oat dawn, and that day it must be cooked and sold on the same day.
However this place is not a duplicate or an impostor one, I read that it is his brother outlet. They have different way of doing business but they keep the same name because this Hadori name is initially their father name. Correct me if I am wrong.
The menu list shows that their price are very reasonable. We can not expect to see any cheap menu on Goat Outlet. It is not the cheapest nor the most expensive one, but I guess in general, it is a bit below average.
MY ORDER
I ordered two dishes, one is tongseng and one is sate. Sate is satay, I believe we all already know about it so no need to definte this Goat Satay anymore.
Tongseng is a Curry like soup. This is a bit hard to say because we have Goat Tongseng, Goat Gulai and Tengkleng Goat which each of them are different dishes but if you translate them, all are Goat Curry. I will show you what is this Tongseng later.
This is how they serve my order, they give me hot rice in a basket which we call it as Bakul, a traditional hand woven basket from wood splints and some other materials.
They give me two sauce too, a soy base and a peanut sauce. Goat Satay usually use soy base sauce, however some people here are die hard of peanut sauce so whatever satay they have, they will ask for peanut sauce. For Goat meat, I will pass this peanut sauce, not match at all.
I like this rice presentation, I prefer to see my plate is empty and I fill it with rice with my own sizing. I feel that is better than directly get a plate with some rice in it which later you might ask for empty plate because you see your plate is too full.
However I must say the soy sauce base is a disappointment. What the hell is this? half ass mix?. Soy base sauce should have chopped green hot pepper, raw shallots, and tomato cuts. They do not have any tomatoes there
Ok this is my main dishes, 3 Goat Satay and a half bowl of Tongseng. They look good and they give a nice aroma there, a bit above my expectation regarding they showcase or display in front do not showing any good Goat Carcasses
The goat satay taste good, and it is a bit surprise for me. I am expecting a tough meat with decent taste and turn out the taste is good and the meat is tender. However the original Hadori from their ground zero outlet has a taste a way above this one, which even until today they are still considered one of the best in Indonesia.
A note from me about Goat Satay, mostly people sell Satay in a package of 10 skewers, or half package of 5 skewers. Only a real blockhead or stingy person like me who dare to order 3 skewers only. Maybe due to this reason they give me half ass soy sauce
So please mind yourself and avoid ordering Satay below 5 skewers
Ok now the hard part to explain, the Goat Curry which we call it as Tongseng
The original Goat Curry is Gulai Kambing, and Tongseng is actually a derivative from Gulai. Tongseng is more like a adapted food from Gulai, which Central Java people tried to make their own Gulai which suited their general taste which demand a more sweetened taste and they finally invented it by merging the Goat Satay with Goat Gulai.
So Tongseng is actually a combination of Goat Satay and Goat Gulai, so how do they merge it? It is simple, most people people make tongseng by stir frying a Goat Satay in a Gulay (curry) soup then they add some sweet soy sauce into it. The get the spicy taste, have the sweet taste from sweet soy sauce and have the goat meat inside it.
So both are came from the same base soup. However they are two differences we can find between Gulai and Tongseng. Gulai mostly only uses beef or goat offal while Tongseng usually only uses goat meat from Goat Satay. The another difference is that in Tongseng you will find some cabbages and tomatoes inside.
This is how Tongseng looks after I scoop some of them into my rice plate. People here eat Tongseng with a hot rice, we do not like cold rice at all. Cold rice kill Tongseng's aroma and flavor.
Ok, That's all for my Taco Tuesdays post today and I hope you all enjoy it. Thank you for reading my post and feel free to leave any comments below as you please.
